Waterville Main Street Historic District Eviction Risk: Elevated

The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.4/10. The poverty rate is 33%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

This is renter territory: 73% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Severe burden reaches 20%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Sitting well above the midpoint, economic stress reads 8.2/10. SNAP participation runs 29.2% against 15.2% nationally.

Against Kennebec County at 37.6%, 46% of renters here are cost-burdened. Running hot, housing-court posture reads 7.7/10.

On the national scale it lands near the 87th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the ME average is 4.5, so this tract runs 2.8 points hotter.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. Average gross rent is $945, close to the Waterville average.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.